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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Rightsizing ROI with a group of resources

in our finops governance, we assign optimization actions to our engineering teams. As a Finops lead, I would like to be able to assign a set of recommendations for an application (through the TAG value), not per resource type (EC2, RDS, EBS etc). ...
9 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 1 Future consideration

ITNM observer should be extened to bring in various collection objects ( VLAN , L2 and L3 VPN , BGP , OSPF , RAN , EPC , LTE etc ) disocvered by ITNM as Topology/Resource group Objects in ASM

Currently ITNM observer don't bring all sort of collections ( VLAN , various layer 2/3 VPNs , BGP , OSPF , LAG , Subnet etc ) that ITNM has modeled and discovered in ITNM as Topology Resource group objects in ASM . Thisis the key area where we can...
9 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Add supported commitment types across OCI

Adding supported commitment types across OCI instances as well. It would help us get commitment recommendations from OCI as well. We have significant amount of spending on OCI as well
9 days ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Future consideration

Rightsizing ROI Widget totals based on 30/10 days, on-demand/effective

The current widget totals displaying the potential savings and realized savings show add up 10-days and 30-day timeline amounts. However the ticket is created this is how the potential and realized savings are displayed. Thus the total figures are...
10 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization 0 Future consideration

Add "Alert Cubes" DI widget to summarize alerts by "groups of device groups" or "groups of object groups"

NOC / SOC engineers want a quick visual summary of their assets under management that may have alerts raised for them. By selecting a device group parent group or an object group parent group this will provide a summarized list of groups of groups...
27 days ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

OMNIbus SNMP Probe should support SNMPv3 SHA512 authentication type

Security is important for every customer and they want to use strong encryption modes. The SNMP probe is based on net-snmp 5.8 which supports SHA-512: http://www.net-snmp.org/wiki/index.php/Strong_Authentication_or_Encryption Question: Authenticat...
7 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Future consideration

ADM sync directions could be separated to bi-directional and option to keep CT->ITP on hold, and automate ITP->CT.

Due to Cost Pools/Bill Codes/Dept reference data been added or modified for each month of a FY, we need to avoid the actual number been changed for prior months that already completed billing process.
29 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Monitor Windows Task Status

Instana should be able to Monitor the status of Windows task
4 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 1 Future consideration

Node logs(kubelet logs) by using Instana sensor or configurations

to get insights on the events and issues at Node level.
6 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes / Logging 4 Future consideration

Monitoring Tibco BWCE

This idea proposes extending the existing TIBCO BusinessWorks (BW) monitoring sensor to also support TIBCO BusinessWorks Container Edition (BWCE). Currently, the sensor offers monitoring capabilities solely for on-premise environments, which limit...
4 months ago in Instana / Sensor 1 Future consideration